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ok, just making conversation …
Given that you all don’t seem to be too impressed with Van Helsing, what WOULD be your fave vampire films? Any you’d recommend?
Me personally,I’d have to go with the Ultraviolet TV series, the way it has you guessing up until the end just who are the good guys are. Also made the whole “vampires among us” idea pretty plausable.
If I had to pick a film though, I’d go for Shadow of the Vampire. Eddy Izard’s facial expressions are worth the money alone.
100% agree….ULTRAVIOLET is fantastic!
I’ve heard, they are planning a movie on that, but I don’t know if it will
be the same as the series.
I doubt a regular movie can beat the series!
Here’s a old but good one….I have it at home on DVD,
Dryers VAMPYR……….I think it was shot in 1929, 1930……
Dracula 2000…..not bad, I liked the Judas Iscariot angle, and I really liked
the sequal they made after that.
Blade….I’m not a real fan of the Blade films
@Belos wrote:
100% agree….ULTRAVIOLET is fantastic!
I’ve heard, they are planning a movie on that, but I don’t know if it will
be the same as the series.
Wow that’d be ace if true.
Big fan of Jack Davonport (Michael), love coupling too.
Will go digging and see if I can find anything out about this.
@Belos wrote:
Dracula 2000…..not bad, I liked the Judas Iscariot angle, and I really liked
the sequal they made after that.
Didn’t realise they’d made a sequel, hmm will have to look for that. Liked the twist with Helsing and also Dracula’s real identity. You kinda kick yourself for never having made the connection before, all very good. Was a little overhyped, and given it was Wes Craven terribly disappointing in the scary jumpy out side of things.
I think it’s Dracula: The Accension ( I’ll have to check the cover)
The morgue gets his body from the burning cross in the first film, and realize they have a vamp………they restore him to steal his blood for a “healing miracle” drig and get their asses bit off for the trouble.
I think the sequal….REALLY…was much better than the original.
Check out (on DVD) Dracula: the dark prince…..about Vlad….FINE FILM!!!!!
I love all the old Hammer vampire films (and most of their horror films in general).
Vampire Hunter D, while not strictly a movie, is also pretty cool. In the anime vein I would also recommend Helsing.
Unfortunately, there aren’t many decent vampire movies out there… Hollywood seems to be obsessed with the idea of vampires as prey for the limitless plethora of hunters they come up with. When they are treated as something other than horror cannon-fodder we might start to see more vampire movies worth watching.
@Belos wrote:
If you like anime…Blood:The last vampire
Yeah, Blood was pretty good. Although I prefered Helsing.
Unfortunately, there aren’t many decent vampire movies out there… Hollywood seems to be obsessed with the idea of vampires as prey for the limitless plethora of hunters
That may of been the case back in my father’s day… but you really shouldn’t make such statements these days, especially when it isn’t the case
Of the recent ‘hollywood’ vampire films that have been released, more have been empathic to vampires… Underworld, Shadow of the Vampire, Queen of the Damned .. and if you’ll let me have it, The league of extraordinary gentlemen. Up against, what… Blade II and Van Helsing?
Even if memory serves me incorrect and I’ve missed a couple more, that’s still around half and half. Hardly typical output from a film industry you seem to think is “obsessed” with portraying Vampires as simple stock goon villans.
on the other side you have hunter series as “Buffy” or “Angel” which almost always portray vampires as the bad guys and movies like the one with George Cloony and the whorehouse full of vamps ( lost the name of it) where vamps are the shabby and mostly dumb villains don’t do much to give them a human character either
might be a temporary fad in hollywood today – or do you think the image of the vampire did really change in the recent years, making him more human-like?
did the vampyre scene or the fact that some humans would identify with vampires do anything to contribute to this fact? the knowledge of film makers that there are those people, that not everyone would think of vampires as monsters?
I’d like to say it was down to those factors, but it clearly isn’t. The vampire “scene” is still viewed as the domain of freaks, and that won’t cahnge any time soon.
IMHO I think it is merely down to screen writers providing a twist, audiences have seen “endless vampire goons turned to dust” done to death. With a film like the Blade franchise, the vampire aspect can be all but ignored, as to be honest the “vampires” could be anything, weres, drug addicts, etc. With other films however, it seems to be that if you are sticking in a character who is a “vampire”, then you best have a decent back history for them and a bloody good reason for sticking them in there. Even modern vampire villans have emotions, motives and a past. A vampire being killed simply for being a vampire and therefore evil is not good enough these days. They, like James Bond villans, must have a plan to take over the world, or kill humans, or some other way to villify them that isn’t directly tied to them being a vampire.
To me it just seems to reflect the mood of modern society towards race and the overly soft view the majority of the media has to take towards political correctness. Evil can’t be born evil, it must be a frame of mind, backed up by acts and intent. Otherwise our heros would be racism and biggoted.
But this would be merely my own opinion.
To me it just seems to reflect the mood of modern society towards race and the overly soft view the majority of the media has to take towards political correctness. Evil can’t be born evil, it must be a frame of mind, backed up by acts and intent. Otherwise our heros would be racism and biggoted. ………………….
*barf*
“politically correct”…the most assholish notion ever inflicted upon ourselves.
And you are right…Hollywood, as well as the media, holds it up as a whore or a saint…whichever way the financial wind is blowing at the time for their interests.
..they can all bite my Harry Potter!
